I want to thank Dr. Fu-Chan Wei and Dr. Chih-Hung Lin for serving as guest editors for this issue of Seminars in Plastic Surgery on “Chang Gung Experience (Part 4): Organization of a Microsurgical Center for Service Education and Research and Miscellaneous Microsurgical Reconstruction.” We also appreciate the efforts made by each outstanding author for contributing to this issue.

Professor Fu-Chan Wei is perhaps the world's best-known microsurgeon. He established the busiest and most comprehensive microsurgical center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Dr. Wei has been recognized as one of the “twenty most important innovators in plastic surgery over the past 400 years” by the American Society of Plastic Surgery and as one of the “10 most influential reconstructive surgeons in the 21st century” by the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Wei is the innovator of the osteoseptocutaneous fibula flap, which revolutionized the reconstruction of composite bone and soft tissue defects in the jaw and extremities. He has pioneered several perforator flaps, including the free style variety. He has taken toe-to-hand microsurgical transplantation to a whole new level. He is not only recognized for his surgical skills and clinical innovations, but also for his vision, leadership, and teaching. Dr. Wei and his colleagues have trained and influenced more than 1,500 surgeons from all over the world, and he has authored over 350 peer-reviewed articles, over 100 book chapters, and edited 20 textbooks.

Chih-Hung Lin, MD, completed his residency at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in 1991, and went to follow Scott Levin in Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, in 1995.

Dr. Lin is a Professor at Chang Gung University and took the role of Chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery from 2008 to 2016. He was the Taiwan Delegate to the International Federation of Hand Surgery and the Asian Pacific Federation for Surgery of the Hand. He was also the superintendent in Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Chiayi, Taiwan from 2017 to 2021, then moved on to become the deputy superintendent of Linko Chang Gung Memorial Hospital from 2021 to 2024.

Dr. Lin strives to provide optimal treatment and a strategic approach for all of his patients. He believes that a functional outcome is the goal for all the patients, and aesthetic results will improve the patients' quality of life. As an accomplished clinician and educator, he has published more than 290 peer-reviewed articles and 20 books.

Article published online:
21 April 2026

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